Programme for 2008
January 17-27 - 21. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media
Exhibition
Opening January 17, 7-10pm
Festival January 18-20 daily 11am- 8pm
After Festival January 24-27 daily 3-8pm
Myriam Bessette und Robin Dupuis, Conciliabule, 2006
Susanne Bürner, 50.000.000 can't be wrong, 2006
Oliver Held, Kino, 2005
The Filmwinter Stuttgart and Media Space are held and organized by Wand 5 e.V. founded in 1987 as an initiative of filmmakers, architects and art historians. The aim of the organization is to offer an international platform to independent film and media culture.
The 21st Filmwinter Stuttgart - Festival for Short and Experimental Film and Media Art - is taking place from 17.- 20. January 2008. The Filmwinter Stuttgart takes up developments and impulses within the international filmmaking and artistic scene and offers an initial public platform. For the first time Media Space will be an independent section within the overall Filmwinter programme.
In the competition category Media in Space international artists compete for a prize of 2,500 Euros. The spectrum ranges from classic video installations to interactive environments and media sculptures. The 10-day long exhibition, featuring artist such as Peter Bogers and Daniel Aschwanden among others, is held in co-operation with exhibition spaces Kunstbezirk – Galerie im Gustav-Siegle-Haus, fluctuating images e.V., and gez. – Raum für Urheber.
At fluctuating images the following works will be shown:
50.000.000 can´t be wrong
Germany 2006
Directed by/script/cut: Susanne Bürner, Animation: Julia Pfeiffer,
Aleksander Cigale,
music: Steven Trafford
fluctuating images e.V.
The work shows groups of people expressing desire and despair through
their facial expression and gestures. However, the object of their affection – their
idol – is
missing. It is outside the picture, denied to the viewer. All traces
referring to him have been removed from the material. What remains is
his reflection in their faces, showing his negative depiction and: a
great emptiness.
The title of this work is a reference to the absent protagonist. In 1959
Elvis Presley had released a compliation of his music under the title „50,000,000
Elvis Fans Can`t Be Wrong“. Hence he was one of the first musicians
to actively use his audience as a justification of his artistic existence.
The interconnection of fan and idol is thus doubled.
Concilabule
Canada, 2006
Directed by: Myriam Bessette, Robin Dupuis
For several years, access to new technologies and the development of
image and sound production tools have afforded today´s artists,
once called video artists, a closer, more direct and ongoing daily contact
with the production process. Emerging from this generation of artists,
Myriam Bessette and Robin Dupuis create moving images and sounds in which
the support no longer defines the message, where genres proliferate and
mingle, and in which filmic structure, vocal sound sampling, and TV aesthetic
merge into a compound form. In their studio-turned-lab, Bessette and
Dupuis sound out an immersive, visual, and electroacoustic universe.
Kino
Germany 2005
Directed by/script/animation: Oliver Held, camera: Dimitrios Nicolaos
Papoutsis
I selected an exemplary sequence of three minutes from a five hour long
video recording showing the traffic in front of a cinema.Its detail screens
were analyzed and compared to the residual material with a software developed
specifically for this purpose. The programme searched for matching forms
in front of a motionless background. All frames of the sequence have
been replaced by the respectively most similar picture from the residual
material. The result is a three minute street scene that pulsates like
a silent movie. The illusion of an ongoing plot sets in, even though
the viewer is able to recognize that it has been put together out of
different points in time.
A comprehensive Festival catalogue will be published.
more information: www.filmwinter.de
March 21 - 23 Exhibition with films of the Freie Kunsthochschule
Nürtingen
curator: Ulrich Wegenast
Opening: Friday, March 21 8pm
opening hours: Saturday & Sunday 4-6pm
March 30, Rotlichtkonzert #15: "Patashnik" with Marcus Wendt and Vera Glahn
The Rotlichtkonzerte are curated by Matthias Siegert (www.vonm.de).
April 5, Lange Nacht der Museen: DJ Only
April 11-13, Go Lee Kwang (Malaysia) concert and video exhibition
in cooperation with the Akademie Schloss Solitude
May 4, Workshop Frédéric Elalouf a.k.a VDJ Oof
/ Cinemix in
cooperation with the 15th Festival for Animated Film Stuttgart, 11am-4pm
In 2008, there will be another vj-workshop lasting several days at the media art gallery, following the success of the international workshops “Video_Recycling. Sample-Mix-Remix” (2004), „Video_Circling – The camera as picture source“ and „Video Performing“ (2006; see www.fluctuating-images.de under archive 2004-2006).
This time the VJ-Workshop is in cooperation with the 15. International Festival for Animated Film Stuttgart and will deal with the combination of Vjing and Djing in one person.
www.itfs.de and www.myspace.com/cinemix
Please note: during the 15th Festival for Animated Film „Vidos“ will be shown. It's a video & print publication containing 30 Videos for Michael Fakesch's album „Dos“. With videos by zeitguised (UK), Quayola (UK), Paolo Lima/MusaWorkLab (Portugal), Brian Bixby/Keep Adding (USA), Scott Pagano/Neither Field (USA), Mateuniverse/Psyop (USA), Marcelo Baldin (Brasil), Giraffentoast (Germany), Markus Wambsganss/Kaliber16 (Germany), Antonin de Bemels (Belgium), Sam Vanoverschelde/Visual Kitchen (Belgium) und weitere. „Vidos“ is curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund.
May 16-18, SNK & PLATZGUMER: GONZOS WIRED, LIVE
- exhibition. Audiovisual Live-Performance with André Bachofner & Christian
Flaccus (schoeneneuekinder, München) and Hans Platzgumer (Convertible,
Stonji, Queen of Japan), in cooperation with gez.-Raum für Urheber
Opening Saturday, May 16, 8 pm - Audiovisual Live-Performance
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday 4–6 pm
This is the fourth event in a series of events called “Visual Music live & discussed”, part of the project “Visual Music” (2007–2008) by media gallery fluctuating images. Over the course of two years, the project will deal with the diverse artistic and institutional aspects of Visual Music. We invite scientists, artists and curators to focus their special perspectives on the topic.
Exhibition and live performance are placed between art and design, focussing
on the experimental handling of new media. No other field in those 'new
media' is as cutting-edge and thrilling as 'generative software', in
which certain rules and systems create graphics or music.
Core of the exhibition is an installation that treats a graphic character
('gonzo') with generative scripting and random algorithm in a graphical
splatter way. Besides the character the design and programming of rules
and systems are the essential part of the artistic work. The idea of
'gonzos coded, remixed' and 'gonzos wired, live' is to use methods and
scripting concepts of 'generative art' but against the usual
pixel purism of this genre to have also an eye on a sensible aesthetics.
The exhibition shows large canvas prints of vector-based screenshots
and an interactive terminal version.
The 3-people live set will be played at the opening. Sound-legend Hans Platzgumer is going to be the audio-magician. Three machines and three humans will be circle-connected sending signals and using feedbacks based on Flash, Processing, Midi and Ableton Live.
More information: www.schoeneneuekinder.de and www.platzgumer.net
The project “Visual Music” (2007-2008) is supported by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.
SNK & PLATZGUMER: GONZOS WIRED, LIVE is supported in addition by: Hypo-Kulturstiftung München
May 25, Plattform für freie Musik
The concert series offers an opportunity for improvising musicians
to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located between
jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball, Kaoss
pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
Information: der011n@prechtlsound.de
May 31 - June 15, Hijacked Video Zine exhibition (curator:
Mark McPherson, Australia)
Opening Saturday, May 31, 8 pm
Opening hours: Thursday 6–8 pm, Saturday and Sunday 4–6
pm
with videos by Nicolas Ledoux, Sascha Pohflepp, D-Fuse, mateuniverse, Pleix and many more
This is the fifth event in a series of events called “Visual Music live & discussed”, part of the project “Visual Music” (2007–2008) by media gallery fluctuating images. Over the course of two years, the project will deal with the diverse artistic and institutional aspects of Visual Music. We invite scientists, artists and curators to focus their special perspectives on the topic.
McPhersons Hijacked Video Zine was alreday shown at the Young Writers Festival, Newcastle (2005), the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne (2006) and the Foto Freo, Fremantle (2006). The Hijacked Video Zine will be renewed for the exhibition at fluctuating images, new video works will be included.
The project “Visual Music” (2007-2008) is supported by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.